Stop attacking success

Following weeks of questions over Mitt Romney's personal wealth, the presumptive GOP nominee said Thursday that criticism of the nation's wealthy, including his family, would lead to economic demise.

"There are people who are trying to attack success and are trying to attack our success; that's not going to be successful," Romney said in an interview to air Thursday on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight." "When you attack success you have less of it, and that's what we've seen in our economy over the last few years."

Really?

First of all, no one is trying to attack SUCCESS. No one is jealous of your success. But there is plenty of criticism of the favorable treatment (especially tax treatment) that you have wrangled from your representatives - from OUR representatives.

"Dividing America based on who has money and who hasn't - who is successful and who is less successful - That is not the American way," Romney said.

And nobody's doing that except you, baby ... by ensuring that you get favorable treatment ... special treatment that is not available to those that don't have so much income that can be treated differently. You see, that's all that matters to people - that you get to play by different RULES.

The man really is out of touch with mainstream Americans. He might as well tell us to eat CAKE.

I am not jealous, and I am not criticizing YOU. But I do criticize the SYSTEM.

Having a ball & I am a Supreme Success. I like what I see in the mirror, I like what I have in my life that spells success! Not socking away what I can't ever possibly spend all over the world like this wretched pack ass Romney...now that was attacking his neurosis

I do not get the attacking success. Is success measured in how much money you have? He is like a piece of cardboard. You can tell he wants to be President so bad he has tried, and tried and he sees his father's dream and his dream slipping away.

How does he expect to win? He is hanging his hat on buying the election that is how. The money might have worked if he was not cardboard man.

He does not have the majority of Hispanic, Women, white collar males, African American. That is a large voting block. He continues playing to the hard right.

Romney's most potent appeal to white voters unhappy with Obama is his tireless championing of the narrative of American self-reliance: the persistent idea that successful people owe their good fortune not to lucky happenstance, such as the wealth of their parents, but to their own hard work, and their own decency as people. His campaign, if nothing else, pushes back against the notion that American success reflects a system stacked in favor of select groups: industries that benefit from corporate welfare; white kids who benefit from better schools and health care; rich people who can afford to hire accountants to find loopholes in the tax code.

One of my favorite-maybe my favorite now that I really think about it-bits of advice is Romney suggesting that young people borrow money from their parents to start their own business. Here we have a classic Trust-Fundie touted as an example of self reliance. That this illusion flys at all is an example of American exceptionalism(as in exceptionally dimwitted)